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rOKTLAU, THCRSDAY, NOV. 13, 1913.
; POLICE GAMBLING.
No police officer is justified in playing-
cards for money, whether the
stakes are high or low. His blue unl,
form does not place him above the
law; his position under the civil serv
ice ought not to protect him from
the law.
It la disgraceful and it Is criminal
that some policemen should have set
. Mp a gambling establishment in the
rooms of one of their number, where
large sums were won and lost. Where
did they gret the money? It is cen
surable that the decent and commend-
i able purposes of the Police Athletic
j Association should have been corrupt.
, ed by the unlawful pastime of penny
ante.
Many people regard poker for nom
inal stakes, so long as it is confined
to the limits of mere pastime, as
harmless diversion, but few will say
that it 13 a proper pursuit for a police
man, whether on or off duty, in the
established rendezvous for police of
ficers. Everybody knows that a po
liceman is the arm of the law and
Itis uniform is the symbol of duty and
order. Everybody knows it but the
policemen who have permitted their
records to be tainted by the practice
of gambling. The reason that these
men did not know It, or at least did
not appreciate it, is that the morale of
the whole police establishment is low,
and that nothing better was required
or expected of them.
. The officers who have been playing
for gain do not deserve much consid
eration. They are not fit to be police
men. They are not fit to guard the
public peace or to watch for infrac
tions of the law they themselves hold
In. contempt.
The whole scandalous episode is a
reproach to the department and a
blot upon the city. That is the way,
undoubtedly, the Mayor, the Civil
Service Commission and the present
Chief look upon it. We suppose they
will not rest until the police depart
ment has undergone a thorough reno
vation, which it obviously long has
needed.
I ESSENTIALS TO PARTY KECNIOX.
The argument for reorganization of
the Republican party as a necessary
preliminary to reunion of all Repub
licans is clearly and forcibly set forth
by Senator Cummins in an article in
the Saturday Evening Post. Defining
a progressive as "one who wants the
Government to serve efficiently the
common good, according to the condi
tions and needs of the time in which
he lives, and is willing- to go ahead
and take the chances that inhere in
all reforms," he asserts that, "taking
men as a whole they are naturally
progressive." He maintains that the
9,000,000 Republican voters were "a
sound, capable, progressive patriotic
body of men"; that they understood
"the problems of the times and were
willing to meet them with courage and
Intelligence." Then he asks: "How
did it happen that the outcome of the
convention, both as to platform and
as to nominations, did not fairly rep
resent the opinions and desires of the
majority."
The answer is that "the convention
of 1912 was not a representative body
In any just sense"; that "it could not
and did not speak for these millions
of Republicans"; that "each voter did
not have an equal voice in the council
In which his representative sat."
He holds that problems must be
fought out among the Republicans of
the under-represented states'and that
In the settlement of disputes and the
selection of candidates "the voting
strength of one Republican must be as
powerful as the voting strength of an
other Republican," and that until this
Is substantially accomplished "the Re
publican party will not command the
confidence of those who believe in the
fundamental principles of representa
tive government." He also condemns
the making of the temporary roll of
the convention by the National Com
mittee, because "It will ordinarily hap
pen that a majority of the committee
will decide in favor of those delegates
who will vote for the candidate for
whom that majority are working and
for the platform agreeable to the men
whose influence gives them their
seats."
Mr. Cummins' plan is to clear the
(way for a thoroughly representative
convention in 1916 by holding a spe
cial convention next year, at which
the basis of representation and the
authority to decide contests shall be
revised. He would leave the 1916 con
vention, which would then be thor
oughly representative, to declare what
the party stands for and to install
leaders.
The reunion of the Republican party
with those who temporarily deserted
It can be effected in the manner sug
gested by Mr. Cummins, while any
other means would be only partially,
if at all. successful. Reunion is not to
le effected by the effacement of one
leader and the setting up of another.
The Republican voters can choose
leaders whom they will follow and
adopt a platform on which they will
stand. When they have thus decided,
the reunion will have been effected,
whether the leaders of the third party
wish It or not. The only remnant of
the schism will be those who would
have bolted in 1912, no matter how
fairly representative the convention
might have been, simply because they
have ceased to be Republicans.
The manner in which Mr. Cummins'
scheme of reorganization has been re
ceived is strong evidence in Its favor.
He no sooner broached it than nearly
all the Republicans of Iowa approved
It and a great many of the men who
controlled the convention of 1912 in
dorsed it. The conference of pro
pesslve Republicans at Chicago was
the sequel, and from it has resulted
the call for a meeting of the National
Committee on December 16 to con
sider the calling of a special conven-
i
tion. A movement which has sprung
so spontaneously from within the par
ty ranks has the brightest prospects
of success.
THE NEWEST $3,000,000 SCHEME.
The latest and newest in a state
where the latest and newest experi
ments in government and in legisla
tion are common is a municipal tele
phone system for Portland. It is the
creation of the Public Ownership
League and all it is to cost is the
modest sum of $3,000,000.
But of course the $3,000,000 is not
to be in cash. The taxpayers will
merely be called upon to use their un
limited credit and issue paper docu
ments to be known as "Municipal Tel
ephone Certificates of the City of
Portland, Or." These certificates shall
bear 6 per cent (or less) interest and
they shall not be sold for less than
par or accrued interest. Inasmuch as
the certificates are not to be a general
liability of the municipality, but are
to be secured by mortgage or mort
gages on the telephone system, and
are to be paid (principal and inter
est) exclusively out of the telephone
revenues, the city will undoubtedly
make a great financial coup if it shall
be able to sell the certificates at par.
But the Municipal Ownership League
appears to have no doubts at all about
it. Public finance is a specialty with
men who are not noted for their suc
cess in private finance.
Portland has two telephone systems
at the present time, and it is the
opinion of no small part of the com
munity that two is one too many. Now
there is to be a third, unless the city
shall condemn and buy, or buy with
out condemnation, one or both of the
private concerns. Seattle has gone
into the electric light and power busi
ness in competition with several local
companies. Possibly Portland will de
cide to follow that eminent precedent.
The telephone proposal Is to come
before the public for decision at the
city election in June, 1915. The pub
lic will have plenty of time to think
about the scheme and also frequent
opportunities to hear from the pro
moters of the Municipal Ownership
League, who have no other easy way,
perhaps, to catch the public eye.
JtTST THE OPPOSITE.
Why Oregon balked at the sterilization of
habitual criminals is a mystery, for about
everything goes that Is put on the referen
dum ballot. Springfield Kepubllcan.
In the interests of accuracy the Re
publican and other newspapers which
may desire to comment on Oregon's
referendum elections are recommend
ed to apply to the Secretary of State,
Salem, Oregon, for a copy of the
Oregon Blue Book. This volume con
tains a complete list of measures voted
on in Oregon since the initiative and
referendum were adopted, excepting
the five measures referred to vote
November 4, 1913. The affirmative
and negative votes are published and
the measures that carried are marked
with asterisk for ready reference.
Instead of showing that "about
everything goes that is put on the ref
erendum ballot," this list reveals that
only forty-eight out of 114 measures
submitted to vote have carried. These
figures include the four bills approved
in this month's election.
On the whole the people of Oregon
have exhibited discernment and in
telligence in separating the good from
the bad or doubtful. If direct legis
lation has revealed fault it is not in
the inconsiderate acts of the mass of
voters, but rather in the selfish or
experimental activity of minorities in
holding up acts of the Legislature de
sired by the people or in submitting
laws that have no chance to gain the
approval of the majority. Moreover,
that fault is not with the principle, but
with the unguarded, unrestricted man
ner in which It may be applied and is
possible of correction.
THE DOUBLE VEIL.
A queer wedding has been arranged
between a Baltimore physician and a
Philadelphia widow. He is to marry
her as boys sometimes trade Jack
knives, "unsight, unseen." The bride
will wear two heavy veils at the cere
mony and only after the knot has been
tied for good and all will the groom
be permitted to gaze on the features
of his treasure.
The widow has defended this pro
ceeding to some newspaper men. In
her opinion, she says, "it is sensible."
With true womanly elusiveness she
does not tell us why it is sensible,
but there are a thousand reasons that
one could guess. Perhaps she is so
ugly that she fears to exhibit her face
before the wedding and hopes that
after it is over her charms of voice
and soul will more than compensate
for her lack of mere facial beauty.
Perhaps she is so lovely that she has
prepared a heavenly surprise for her
gallant doctor. He innocently expects
nothing more than the ordinary fea
tures of a commonplace widow, while
all the time seraphic charms await his
raptured vision. .
But we shall not try to penetrate
into the fathomless depths of the
widow's reasons. We shall take her
word that she has good ones and let
it rest there. Our purpose now is to
point out how much farther her plan
might be carried. Why, in fact, should
people who contemplate matrimony
know anything whatever of one an
other? The evident aim of everybody
concerned is to create an illusion up
to the moment the fatal act is con
summated. The bride arrays herself
In a complete outfit of false perfec
tions. She borrows smiles, Imitates
accomplishments and puts on an ev
anescent appearance of angelio sweet
ness.' The groom arms himself with
all sorts of knightly qualities, which
are as purely imaginary as the charms
of his affianced.
Why stop with this comparatively
feeble effort to deceive? Why not se
clude the parties from each other
completely and In place of meetings
where both do their best to act a part,
put into their hands documents which
will accomplish the result more ef
fectually? Give the groom a descrip
tion of an ideal bride and the bride
a description of an ideal groom and
let them feast their souls on , these
illusions until the great revelation of
the wedding ceremony. Since decep
tion is the universal aim in courtship
it seems as if the more flawless it
can be made the better.
. If happiness is dependent on false
hood, as so many sages assure us,
evidently the more trickery we can
practice the better. The cold, gray
light of truth will break in soon
enough, no matter how hard we try
to exclude it. What a pity it is that
the Philadelphia widow cannot wear
her double veil all her life. We have
no doubt that, like all the rest of the
world, she needs it.
The English 'National Council for
the Promotion of Public Morals is so
alarmed at the fall in the birth rate
that it has formed a commission to in
quire Into the subject. A well-known
writer recently suggested that prohl-
bltlon of child labor was a contribu
tory cause. Working people' formerly
brought children Into the world -with
the comforting self-assurance that the
little ones would soon contribute to
the family support. Child labor laws
have made children a burden instead
of a help to these people, hence a fall
ing birth rate.
RCRAJL CREDITS.
The Oregonlan prints today a letter
from J. H. Wilson, of Corvallis, on the
subject of the proposed ; rural credit
system. We shall make one or two
comments on the letter in order
to correct certain misapprehensions
which Mr. Wilson probably shares
with many other persons. He believes,
as we gather from his letter, that the
rural credit system will necessarily In
terfere with the business of the coun
try banks, which, as he says, depend
largely upon loans to farmers for their
prosperity.
In discussing this matter It is es
sential to keep in mind the two classes
of loans which farmers need. In one
class we include the short-time loans
which they negotiate to move their
crops, buy machinery and stock and
so on. In the other class we include
the long loans which are needed to
buy land, make permanent Improve
ments and pay off old obligations. The
short time loans are often sufficiently
provided for by the country banks,
but in other cases they are not- The
banks loan money to farmers whose
financial standing Is assured. Just as
they do to reputable merchants. But
there is another group of farmers
whose character Is excellent but who
have virtually no credit. They can
not procure a short loan on desirable
terms no matter how badly they need
it or how honest they may be, except
in rare and unusual cases.
Again, neither country nor city
banks make long mortgage loans in
the regular course of their business.
It Is important that a farmer when
he contemplates' buying land and mak
ing permanent Improvements should
be able to procure funds on long time
at low interest. Ten, twenty, or even
fifty years is not an unreasonable
period for such loans to run, as ex
perience has shown in France and
Germany. What bank can possibly
handle credits of this character?
It is to meet the entirely reasonable
demand for loans running perhaps
half a lifetime without renewal, to
gether with non-commercial short
loans, that the rural credit system is
contemplated. It is not in any par
ticular inimical to the country banks,
since it aims to handle a business en
tirely outside theirscope.
JUDGMENT ryDACSTED.
Most people of the middle and low
er classes are so blinded by awe when
they behold a woman of the highest
social rank that they cannot judici
ously criticise her looks. To the hum
ble eye all females are equally beau
tiful when they are well plated with
gold and gems. It is therefore a
great comfort . to read unterrified
judgments upon these glorious social
orbs from lips like those of Anna Held
and Marie Louise Ready. As We must
depend upon the astronomers for the
genuine facts about the sun, which
dazzles the common eye, so we must
depend upon actresses and milliners
for unperverted descriptions of high
society. Anna Held beholds society
sitting in all its grandeur in the the
ater boxes. Marie Louise Ready sees
it stripped down to the corsets in her
shop.
We do not for an instant Imagine
that either of them tells all she knows,
but what they do tell is thrilling and
disillusioning. Anna Held says that
San Francisco women are "fat and
coarse because they hh nothing to
do but ride in automobiles and go to
dinner parties." Marie Louise Ready
says New York women "look dissipat
ed," which means that they have gin
blossoms on their noses and obese ac
cumulations in the neighborhood of
the stomach.
Far be it from us to Imperil our
immortal souls by approving of these
irreverent observations. They may be
true or they may not. All we can say
is that when a person of either sex
does nothing but eat the chances are
that he or she will accumulate fat.
It must be admitted, too, that the
steady imbibation of gin usually pro
duces an outer symbolism in the shape
of nasal blossoms.
We should be disposed to doubt that
San Francisco society of the highest
tone is any lazier than its sisters In
other cities. Women who have noth
ing to do usually do it, no matter
where they live and, in the inevitable
course of nature, they take on cor
pulency. Statistics prove pretty con
clusively that people of some sort have
been drinking a great deal more gin
than is good for them during the last
dozen years or so. If the New York
women are the guilty parties we sup
pose they must stand the consequence,
whatever aspect it may assume. It is
lamentable if, as Marie Louise Ready
declares, this aspect should resemble
gin blossoms, but we must remember
that nature is inexorable and one of
her laws prescribes that whoever en
Joys without work shalL pay the price
in some form of degeneracy. .
TE3IFERAXCB IX RCSSIA.
The liquor question is to the front
in Russia as well as in Anglo-Saxon
countries and Germany. The Duma
recently passed a resolution, moved
by the peasant deputies, proposing
that there should be a yearly decrease
in the output of the government spirit
monopoly; that all villagers should
have the prescriptive right of closing
the state liquor shops; that the sale
of liquor should not last more than
eight hours a day; that liquor should
be sold in bottles of not less capacity
than one-twentieth vedro (about a
pint); that not more than one such
bottle should be sold to one Individ
ual per diem except in cases of family
festivals, and In such 'cases a certifi
cate from the local authorities must
be produced; that all liquor shops
should be closed on the day before
holidays; that there should be no pri
vate dealing in liquor; that the evils
of drink should be mad apparent by
propaganda among the rural inhabi
tants; that all temperance, educational
and similar societies should ' be en
dowed out of a grant formed by a 10
per cent charge upon Che profits of
the monopoly, and that the excise on
tea and sugar should be reduced.
Although vodka Is popularly sup
posed to be the universal beverage in
Russia, the Russian supplement of the
London Times says that country still
stands almost at the foot of the list
of alcohol-consuming nations. That
journal explains that the mischief is
greater because raw liquor is almost
the only form of liquor used and says
that a remedy is rather to be sought
in promotion of the temperance move
ment, which has been Initiated by the
church. .
The most promising sign of im
provement is the fact that the move
ment should have sprung from among
the peasants, who are supposed to be
the most hopeless victims of vodka
that Is, that it should have come from
within, not from without the class
most affected. The suggestion that
the restriction on the quantity of li
quor to be sold one individual on one
day should be lifted in the case of
family festivals Indicates that they
still regard drunkenness as a neces
sary feature of festivities and have far
to travel before they reach the Ameri
can, standard of sobriety.
Efficiency of the Government In"
constructing the Panama Canal Is held
up as an example of successful So
cialism, but the Socialists character
ize it as "state capitalism." - They de
mand extension of Government pow
ers "under democratic control," while
the Panama Canal was built under
military discipline byColonel Goethals
and Colonel Gorgas. " The New York
Evening Post aptly says:
If Government abattolra could sell meat at
lower rates to the people of any state than
to the people of every other state In the
Union we should have a real parallel to
Panama. And If popular elections would al
ways give us a Goethals for the post of
construction engineer and a Gorgas for san-
ltary engineer, the parallel would be still
closer.
Our Island, of Guam, in the far Pa
cific, has been the scene of some extra
ordinarily improving efforts on the
part of the Federal Department of
Agriculture. The island contains 300
square miles, with 10,000 population.
A few years ago, in spite of its fertile
soli, it imported food from Japan. The
department experts have taught the
islanders to farm so well that they are
now exporters of breadstuffs. This
kind of learning is worth while. We
cannot have too much of It, either in
Guam or at home.
According to Booker T. Washington,
who is thoroughly informed upon the
subject, the Southern, negroes are pro
gressing rapidly as far as property
holdings are concerned. In the fifteen
old slave states they own one-quarter
of the land. Throughout the cotton
belt negro laborers are preferred to
whites and Dr. Washington believes
that 200,000,000 acres of unimproved
land will soon, be sold to colored pur
chasers. All this is encouraging. It
means peace as well as prosperity for
the South.
Mr. Sulzer's hope of becoming
leader of the Progressive party in the
New York Assembly is blighted by the
announcement that that party will not
make him its candidate for Speaker
and will have as little to do with him
as possible. Mr. Sulzer was a handy
club with which to beat Tammany,
but when Progressives look him over
with the cold scrutiny of after-election
judgment they decide he will not
do. "The same old Bill" might re
peat the same old tricks.
To those who protest against segre
gation of the races In the Government
departments. President Wilson is re
ported to have replied that it was
greatly exaggerated and Secretary Mc
Adoo denies it altogether. But the
wrong Is the same on however small
a scale it be practiced. In fact, seg
regation was being completed in one
division of the Postoffice Department
at the very time when the denial was
made.
The old Republican machine of Sen
ator Penrose is not as dead as we
were led to suppose a year ago, for
It showed its power in Philadelphia
and Pittsburg at the recent municipal
elections. Pennsylvania could not re
gard "Billy" Flinn as anything but
a comedian when he appeared in the
guise of a reformer.
An unmarried woman at the session
of the International Purity Congress
in Minneapolis yesterday proposed a
list of panaceas for all the social evils.
Depend upon a woman in the single
state to know all about these matters.
While a German magistrate holds
that staring at a cop is a grave of
fense against the law, yet it must be
admitted that we have a few locally
who will bear close scrutiny.
Despite Mrs. Belmont's explanations
and gratuitous enlightenment from
other sources, we Insist that a spug is
merely a constitutional tightwad.
Secretary Bryan has warned Mexi
cans not to dare to destroy foreign
properties at Tuxpam. Tut, tut, Wil
liam; don', get. horrid about it.
The cigarette again scores. A man
went to sleep in a North End hotel
with it lighted and made a lot of trou
ble for decent people. .
A' New York man whose wink at a
shopgirl was resented, must serve
twenty days. Had she not resented
it he might have gotten life.
Domestic bliss is the greatest thing
on earth, but when both parties would
be the head of the family the devil
rides in the saddle.
Investigation of the rebel cause is
merely another form of procrastina
tion on the part of the Administration
Micawbers.
If eggs keep on going up we shall
transfer the family valuables to the
hen coop and the hens to the family
vault. ,
With London suffragettes negoti
ating for repeating rifles, we shall ex
pect shortly to hear of a female peril.
That Army Paymaster named Pip
pin, who got away, with 33000, has
quite an appropriate cognomen.
The local police arrested a gambler
with a large, sharp knife in his pocket.
Must have been a trimmer.
The first Portland woman to appear
In a lampshade dress will be entitled
to a medal for her nerve.
Come to Portland, ye that are blizzard-stricken,
and enjoy the flower
show.
Germany sees no hope in our latest
Mexican policy. There's not any to
see. -
Those fire autos should have a coat
of something luminous for night work.
Four millions for the Umatilla proj
ect. Things keep coming our way.
It would appear that some of our
local crooks wear uniforms.
Turn the rascals out of the police
department.
We Just know our cruel slights will
kill Huerta.
' Stars and Starmakers
BY LIONS CABS BalB.
Birds of a feather flock together in
the aigrette room at the police station.
Clothes may not make the man. but
where would lawyers be if it were
not for suits?
I reckon waves are referred to as
feminine because they're always "say
ing something."
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And also because no one) knows what
they're saying.
One of those big benefits described as
"rousing" was given In Los Angeles for
the stranded chorus girls with the
Kitty Gordon company when it dis
banded. The latest turn of affairs
brings Kitty Gordon to the Morosco In
a . production. "Alma, Where Do
You Live," and many funny stories
are told of how Mr. Morosco coerced
Miss Gordon into signing for this two
weeks' engagement as she was board
ing the train for New York.
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They are trying out a course of
musical comedy at this theater and
Miss Gordon Is heading the regular
company. Some of the names on the
list are familiar to Portland. James
Gleason. Thomas McLarnle and his
wife, Beatrice Nichols, are former
Baker players, and Reece Gordon,
whose dancing has been one of the
features of the productions, was last
season with Keating and Flood.
Some one told me that George L.
Baker begun life as a newsboy. I
asked him, and he said the report
is not correct. He begun life as an
infant.
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Henry Hall is touring in. the Middle
West with one of the "Little Women"
companies.
Elmer Booth, of the "Stop ThUf
company, was knocked off his feet by
a motorcycle and the policeman who
came up with the crowd asked Booth
If he could "swear to the man who
did it." "I did." replied Booth, "but
he didn't wait to hear me."
George Beban, who has visited us
by the vaudeville route on several oc
casions, is a member of the Anna Held
road show company, due here next
month.
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John Sumner, last season with the
Baker players. Is a member of Ye Lib
erty Stock in Oakland.
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Ten thousand dollars' worth of fin
gers! That's what you see when you
watch Loa Durbyelle make wonderful
shadow pictures at the Orpheum this
week. But that isn't all, for it is
310,000 worth of Portland fingers. Miss
Durbyelle is a Portland girl, born and
bred, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Durbin, who lived on the East
Side at the time of her birth. Later
they moved up on Portland Heights
until they changed their residence
again to the Puget Sound country.
When Miss Durbyelle played the
Orpheum two years ago she took out
the policy on her ten fingers. Other
Pacific Coast talent is rampant on this
week's bill. There is Maude O'Delle,
a San Francisco girl, who played her
first speaking part with one of George
L. Baker's stock companies here. She
is appearing in "The Goat," written
by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, a Los
Angeles girl, and supported by Myrtle
Langford, who played the Orpheum
with Sydney Ayres and was ingenue
with Cathrlne Countiss. Miss Mitchell
has Just had a three-act play accepted
by the Shuberts and It was she who
wrote "The Way to the Heart" for
Julius Steger.
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Where there's a will there's a crop
of wives.
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This has been reunion week for Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Eddy, a vaudeville cou
ple. Mrs. Eddy is a member of the
girl Jury in "Court by Girls," which
was presented at the Empress last
week, and her husband Is a member
of the trio, Maglin, Eddy and Roy,
knockabout comedians, who open the
show at the Empress this week. The
lost week between Portland and San
Francisco permitted Mrs. Eddy to re
main here and pass the greater part
of the week with her husband. Next
week, in San Francisco, Eddy will be
idle, while his wife does her bit on
the stage, and thereafter Mrs. Eddy
will be one Week ahead of her hus
band on the Empress circuit until
Kansas City is reached. Portland and
San Francisco represent the only cities
on the 28-week tour which afford the
vaudeville duo chances to visit
"Such are the contingencies of vaude
ville," said Mrs. Eddy. "When we
started out, my husband and I were
on the same bill, but - the booking
agent was cruel enough to separate
us by making 'Court by Girls' headline
the show which had been traveling
a week ahead of us." Bob Eddy has
appeared in Portland as the feature
clown of the Barnum & Bailey circus.
e
Absence makes a man's wife ponder.
Denver has a new theater, the Den
ham, made over from the old Shubert.
built by the Shuberts, of New York,
with Denver money. The original
building permit called for a 3400,000
edifice, but before It was completed
"the Shubert," as It was called, had
cost over $600,000, and it stands today
as one of the most complete, attractive
and up-to-date theaters in tho country.
William Warner, a man of wealth and
prominence in Kansas City and Chi
cago, where he is best known, is the
president of the company; W. R.
Homan is the vice-president; O. D.
Woodward, a veteran theatrical man,
for years identified with first-class
stock companies in Kansas City, Min
neapolis and Omaha, is the general
manager; Roscoe Homan, the son of
W. R. Homan, for several years asso
ciated with Mr. Woodward in his
Omaha and Kansas City theaters, is
the busines manager, and Con Hecker
the press representative. The house
will be given over to stock. Baker
Moore, juvenile last season with the
Baker playerr, and Frank Denithorne,
juvenile two seasons ago, are with the
new organization. Eva Lang is lead
ing woman and Carl Anthony leading
man.
Sin, Katleleh'a Testimony.
Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Fatleigh My husband loves me
dearly; he says that when I am away
the house seems empty.
Mrs. Slim That isn't love, necessar
ily; he may have reference merely to
your size.
Confounding Ills Enemies.
Buffalo (N. Y.) Express.
"In his speeches Griggs is confound
ing his enemies." "Yes, and privately
he is using even stronger language."
CAUSE OP INELEGANCE IX SPEECH
Short Cnt Responsible for Murk In
accuracy, Says Writer.
GILBERT, Or. Nov. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) Last week The Oregonlan com
mented on the fact that several con
temporaries were discussing the ques
tion of tho admission of slang into the
language as legitimate words. You
stated that very little slang is al
lowed that privilege. I wish to inquire
who 13 the rightful Judge. Who ad
mits or rejects? I think that our cross
lots way of saving time in talking is
responsible for a good deal of negli
gence, if not absolute inaccuracy.
By whose authority did that homely
word "bike" if it is a word come
into use? Better use the euphonious
bicycle even if It does consume a frac
tion of a second more time. I am ex
pecting to learn ere, long that that
other word of pleasing sound motor
cycle has been shortened into "mote."
Whoever the authority board of cen
sors shall I call it? of the English
language is, in my opinion, re
miss in its duties or else its decrees
go, to a great extent, unheeded. The
censorship should Include phrases as
well as words. Why should the inele
gant expression "get married" be tol
erated when "to marry" and "to be
married" are so much smoother? Why
is "or" so frequently substituted for
"nor"? Each has its distinct meaning
and neither can properly be substituted
for the other.
Some years ago by whose authority
I do not know a "p" was stolen from
"kidnapped" and the mutilated word
"kidnaped" has been limping along ever
since. As I have never happened to
learn if there were a good reason for
the change, the word has never looked
right since. In these latter days of
reforms would It not be a good Idea to
use the recall on the censorship?
Correct speaking and correct living
seem to bear a certain relation to each
other. One whose speech is careless
is apt to lead a more or less careless
life.
It Is absurd that so comprehensive a
term as the word "machine" should be
used to designate the automobile. The
discarded carriage might be described
by the same word. My natural philoso
phy classed so simple a thing as a
knife as a machine. Why any one
should prefer "machine" to "auto" is
not easy to understand.
These are a few hints that an up-to-date
censorship might consider.
W. B. EMERSON.
WHAT FATE FOR COUNTRY BANKS f
Correspondent Believes Rural Credits
Would Take Their Business.
CORVALLIS. Or., Nov. 11. (To the
Editor.) In an editorial today on
"How to Develop Oregon" The Orego
nlan has mentioned several things
needed, one of which is a system of
rural credits. I do not know Just what
that means. A farmer now establishes
his credit in some convenient bank and
when he needs money gives his note to
the bank, pays 8 or 10 per cent inter
est, and in due time pays the note. Now,
if a new system of rural credits is in
stalled, will it not displace the bank
loan, and If it does, will not the bank
have to depend on other classes of
loans?
The other classes of loans for coun
try banks are not large nor very lu
crative. A few merchants, a few manu
facturers and contractors, and a few,
producers and cattle buyers constitute
a large proportion of them. I exam
ined a bank not long ago in a rural
community where 95 pr.cent of its
paper was among the farmers.
It might be said that the progress of
the producer is more to be desired than
that of the country banker. The two
go together. Let, for Instance, your
country bank suspend payments, and
what happens? Practically every in
dustrial movement in the vicinity of
the bank, not otherwise financed, lan
guishes. Trades cease, building move
ments are arrested. It is difficult
even to find money to pay farm labor,
and that has to be paid. If you take
away from your rural banks that line
of credits, you really force the coun
try bank out of business, for they de
pend on the farming community either
Lfor their operating expenses or else
for the profits of their banking busi
ness, without either of which they
could not subsist.
I am inclined to think that It will
be difficult to supplant the rural pri
vate banking interest with any system
of rural credits which Ignores the coun
try bank. They might not co-operate.
If the system of rural credits should
extend into its final and full develop
ment, might that not be a long step
toward community ownership? How
can you have a system of rural credits
without eliminating the private profit
by which the present system is upheld,
and when that is done is not the next
step community ownership?
J. H. WILSON.
PORTLAND ROSES,
It's in the crimson sunset.
Just at the close of day.
They're vleing with each other
To show their colors gay.
'Tis then the lovely beauties
Are clinging on their stem.
Each with each' are vieing
Each one a glittering gem.
Yes Portland is the city.
Where roses grow so fine;
In June they're good and plenty
In November still they twine.
It's here you'll find the roses
At Christmas time so near.
To decorate the table
And greet each guest with cheer.
O, roses, roses, everywhere
Their fragrance fills the air
Their beauty fills the heart
And charms away dull care.
It's here the lovely roses
In Portland by the sea.
Waft forth their sweetest fragrance.
O'er leagues of land for thee.
Mrs. Cynthia Rudler Osgood.
Doubt Expressed fn Questions.
PORTLAND, Nov. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly give space for
the following questions, which I would
like to ask the Welfare Commissioners?
1. Will three hours' work, from 6 to
9 P. M., once a week on a day preced
ing a holiday affect the health of any
female over 18 years of age?
2. If a laboring man works six days
each week, and has a credit account
at a department store, when, if not on
Saturday night, can he purchase his
clothing? Is it right to make him lose
a day or half-day for that purpose?
3. If the department stores keep
open, employing men and discharging
hundreds of girls (as some stores have
indicated they will), will not the mor
als of these girls be more endangered
than at present? Are not poverty and
unemployment the chief aids of the
white slaver?
4. Is it fair to hang a burden on the
mercantile neck of Oregon that will
prevent its merchants and manufac
turers from meeting competition from
other states?
6. Will there not be some more fine
corner stores to rent in this city if this
legislation is enforced? R. E. S.
lTs or We!
V.-ILBUR. Or., Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly telme which is correct,
"I wish to speak a few words on this
subject so vitally important to all of
'us' stockholders," or "I wish to speak
a few words on this subject so vitally
important to all of 'we' stockholders"?
Kindly explain why. A READER.
"Us" or "we" is a personal pronoun,
and Is used In the sentence as the di
rect object, of the preposition "to."
Therefore the objective case "us" is
correct.
Twenty-five Year Ago
From The Oregonlan of November 13, 1SSS.
Saltm, Nov. 12. The capital is some
what disturbed over a case of small
pox which has developed in the family
of a Swiss named Schwab living In
North Salem.
Salem. Nov. 12. Miss Flora Hurst,
daughter of J. D. Hurst, of Aurora,
died this morning. She was about 20
years of age.
San Francisco, Nov. 12. Senator
Stanford talked further today about
his plans for his great university.
J. W. Norville and J. S. Roe, of Sum
merville. Or., are at the'Holton. The
former is Joint Senator-elect from
Union and Wallowa counties. The latter
will represent Union County In the
Lower House.
S. W. McDowell, who ran for Presi
dent at the head of the curious ticket
printed in The Oregonlan, filed a ram
bling letter with the County Clerk
yesterday.
At a meeting at the First Congrega
tional Church yesterday steps were
taken to organize a board of labor and
charity. Rev. Mr. Houghton, of Grace
M. E. Church, presided and the meet
ing was addressed by W. G. Steel, Rev.
T. E. Clapp, T. M. Strong and William
Cake.
Tho Emma Abbott Opera Company
last evening began their return en
gagement at the New Park Theater
with "The Yoemen of the Guard."
A. Arnberg has resigned as mem
ber of the City Council of Alblna and
ex-Councilman Plttenger has been ap
pointed to fill the vacancy.
J. M. Boggs has gone to Chicago.
J. F. Watson, who went East to meet
his wife on her arrival from Europe,
says he enjoyed his trip.
Robert Bell has just received a let
ter from Ellis G. Hughes, a member
ol the Board of Immigration who is
now traveMnsr In th Kasf.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of November 13,
Cyrus W. Kield has just returned
from Europe, bringing with him a spec
imen of the now Atlantic cable. Glass,
Elliott & Co.. the contractors, will try
to charter the Great Eastern, which
could easily carry the cable and would
ride over the waves with the desirable
steadiness.
The citizens of Benton County met
at Ccrvallis on November 7 and passctl
resolutions approving the California &
Oregon Railroad. Dr. J. R. Bayley was
chairman and A. C. Daniels secretary,
and the meeting was addressed oy K.
-M. Smith, of California; F. A. Cheno
weth, Rev.'G. D. Driver and others.
Quite an Improvement in the ap
pearance and safety of some of our
streets was perceptible last evening,
thanks to some public-spirited memoers
of the Common Council, who prefer gas
light.
We saw yesterday at the store of
Smith & Davis a patent packing can for
liquids, designed expressly for the
transportation of fluids, such as oil,
kerosene, etc., great distances, and
more especially for packing on animals.
Drs. Hawthorne and Loryea, physi
cians and proprietors of Oregon State
Insane and Idiotic Asylum, have con
tracted with the Judge of Washington
County for the keeping of the paupers
of said county at their institution in
h'.ast Portland.
On Saturday, the seventh, a single
handed combat took place near Fair
field between two men by the names
of George Miller and a Mr. Simons, the
former a secessionist and the latter a
Lj'nlori man, - in whiclv a shotgun was
used to the injury of the skull of Mr.
S., at which time the gun went oft
and came near shooting a boy near by,
after which Mr. S. made his escape,
and Miller then followed Mr. Simon
with another loaded gun and was only
prevented from shooting him by the
timely Interference of some good Union
men at the house of Rev. 13. M. Kerns,
near by.
Questions of Etiquette.
PORTLAND. Nov. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) 1. Am not very well acquainted
In a new residence district tn which
we have bought a home. In a casual
meeting a lady asked me to call upon
her. This was some time ago. Is it
not her place first to call upon me un
der most any circumstances? If not,
is it too late now?
2. Is an Invitation to an afternoon
tea simply considered a call on the
hostess to be returned soon by her or
should the one visited call first again?
3. Is it proper to call upon any new
neighbor that one does not know nor
ever met or must one wait until she
has met the neighbor?
4. Is there any way of becoming ac
quainted with proper social etiquette
except through "questions?"
VERY YOUNG MATRON.
1. The other woman should call upon
you, but if you know her to be very
desirable and at the same time not
rigid about the little conventions you
could call. It all depends upon circum
stances whether It Is now too late tn
call.
2. You should call upon the hostess
giving the tea about 10 days after ihe
festivity, if possible unless she has a
day at home, in which case wait until
then.
3. It is proper to call on new neigh
bors whom you have not theretofore
met. If you want to become acquainted,
a good way Is to unite with the church
that you choose or to join some club.
4. There are sevoral good books on
etiquette for sale at leading stationers
and book stores.
Gravy, Cat, and Next Day.
Puck.
Coogan, the customer There's as
much nourishment in a pint av pea
nuts as in two "pounds av thot steak.
Grogan, the butcher But there's no
gravy, an' nothin' fr th' cat, an' no
hash the nixt day.
Mis.it Purchases
Careless buying frequently results
In extravagance and disappoint
ment. This comes from putting off
your shopping until the last min
ute. It comes also from not know
ing definitely what you want or
what you need or where to get it.
Shoppers themselves are largely
responsible for the ill-humor of
salespeople. . You have doubtless
seen men and women shopping who
had no lIea of what they ought to
buy. After taking up one or more
salesperson's time fussing and fret
ting and Jumping from one thing
to another, they buy something
that doesn't suit or fit or please.
All of this might be avoided by
preparing one's self beforehand. A
few minutes' careful reading of the
advertisements appearing in The
oregonian will Inform one's mind
i.d turn a disagreeable shopping
tur into a pleasant afternoon.
The happiest shoppers are those
who read the advertisements in
The Oregonian and in other live
newspapers. They save time, money,
and patience. Adv.